How (almost) any phone number can be tracked via WhatsApp & Signal – open-source PoC

Three years on, ChatGPT still isn't what it was cracked up to be – and it probably never will be

The web has a superpower: permission-less link sharing.

This ability to create and disseminate links is almost radical against the backdrop of today’s platforms.

To some, the hyperlink is dangerous and must be controlled

At the same time, though, the scope of private life itself seems to be shrinking. Our experiences are flattened by the mass culture that everyone consumes, regurgitates, remixes (and that AI is now beginning to remix for us). Social science and marketing—combined with coercive technology—turn what seem, from the first-person perspective, like deeply personal choices into statistically predictable and controllable behaviors

Hobart woman Renee Woodleigh is selling a 1937 edition of JRR Tolkien's classic The Hobbit.

She says it is a first edition, which a rare book specialist says could "absolutely" be true

The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet.

To qualify your website must satisfy both of the following requirements: It must be an actual site that contains a reasonable amount of information, not just a couple of links on a page; Your total UNCOMPRESSED web resources must not exceed 512KB

Captain Obvious Strikes

In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.

This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.

patterns that arise in origami can be translated into a set of points that together form the amplituhedron

If we could remove the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit, there'd be a 50% reduction in the overall debris-generating potential, reports Ars Technica

A 150,000-person study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting found millennials appear to be aging biologically faster than previous generations based on blood biomarkers

The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine

oh nein!111

A debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic” and “a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like”

If people understand what large language models are and are not; what they can and cannot do; what work, interactions, and parts of life they should—and should not—replace, they may be spared its worst consequences

The "Grandma Exploit"

Binance announced on Twitter that they had fired an employee after discovering that they had engaged in insider trading. The employee took a large position in a token that he knew would be engaging in a "token generation event", then quickly sold off the tokens after the project announced the event

it even retains the classic space western anime’s opening theme, “Tank!”

maxilla’s Charles Chung, who was previously one of the 3DCG staff for Magic: The Gathering’s Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty anime trailer, directed the “Cowboy Bebop x Magic: The Gathering Opening Homage Trailer” and was also its compositing director. The character designs are from illustrator and designer Apapico, while Jujutsu Kaisen‘s Eiko Matsushima was the video’s color designer. aeonium is the animaton production studio.

The trailer can’t be embedded, so you’ll have to watch it over on YouTube.

The IndieWeb doesn't need to go mainstream to be meaningful. It's a celebration of a more personal, decentralised, and creative world wide web

I think of AI as alternative intelligence – and its capacity to be ‘other’ is just what the human race needs